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Colin Thiele catalogue

updated 23rd June 2010


The March of the Mother Duck

illustrated by Mary Milton
published 1993 (1st ed.)
by Walter McVitty Books Australia

This really happened!
A mother duck hatches ducklings outside Adelaide's police station, then decides to moves them to the River Torrens— with a police escort
.

Hardback with glazed pictorial board covers, no dust jacket, in very good condition, no names or marks, lovely coloured pictures.
THI100 $120


 



Colin Thiele children’s novels


hardbacks


Albatross Two: dj, modern adventure – crayfishing and oil rig -2 copies

1x VG/VG $8, 1x GD/GD $6
Storm Boy: dj, 2 copies 1x 1st ed. GD/GD 1963 ex-lib $30,
1x photo cover (not film) VG/VG $20

Sun on the Stubble: hardback made from paperback VG/-- 1976 THI099 $10

The Hammerhead Light: 1976 dj VG/VG $12
The Undercover Secret: 1982 1st ed dj GD/GD $8

paperbacks

 


Blue Fin: film version, photos by David Kynoch, tuna fishing at Port Lincoln. GD/-- THI104 $6

 

 

Chadwick’s Chimney: skindiving in caves, 1x VG/-- $4, 1x GD/-- $3
February Dragon: bushfire, VG/-- $6
Fight Against Albatross Two (published in hb as Albatross Two), VG/-- $6
Klontarf: VG/-- deserted homestead with a secretin Barossa Valley $6

Seashore and Shadows: VG/-- $6
Shatterbelt: Tracy on bike racing to save friend VG/-- $6
Speedy: dolphin off Kangaroo Island VG/-- $6
Storm Boy and Other Stories (eg Dad Ran a Fowl Run): VG/-- $6
The Hammerhead Light: 2002 ex-lib GD/-- $6

The Rim of the Morning: 1981 VG/--, short stories incl. Storm Boy and Dad Ran a Fowl Run $10

The Sun on the Stubble: 1981 holes on fep from removal of presentation plate (perhaps), slight dogears. THI101 $12

Colin Thiele children’s picture books (for younger readers)
hardbacks
Magpie Island: dj,Illus. Roger Haldane GD/GD, ex-library $6
Thiele Tales Three Long Stories for Children: Gloop the Bunyip, Flip-Flop and Tiger Snake, Flash Flood. $35

 

Gloop the Bunyip: 1973 reprint hb with glossy pictorial boards, no dust jacket. GD/--, ex-library with usual excrescences, clean pages and clean covers with edgewear.

THI093 AU$6

 

paperbacks
Mrs Munch and Puffing Billy: 1967 1st ed. GD/-- $10

poetry
Poems in my Luggage: 1989 paperback VG/-- $10

Adult short stories edited by Colin Thiele
Favourite Australian Short Stories: pb, Henry Lawson, Judith Wright, Henry Handel Richardson, Hal Porter etc $10

Colin Thiele adult non-fiction
hardbacks
The Bight: dj, photos, VG/VG, with name $9
Lincoln’s Place: 1978 1st ed hb with dj, name on first page VG/VG colour drawings by Robert Ingpen, story of Aust Pioneer Farm out of Melbourne $20

 

Find more books by Colin Thiele at website based at his home town:
www.eudunda.net/colinthiele